baptizar
Portuguese, verb
baptizar is spelled B-A-P-T-I-Z-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written Portuguese, the 85,416th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Baptizar is a Portuguese verb meaning “pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of batizar; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “o mesmo que batizar”.
What does baptizar mean in English?
verb
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pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of batizar; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and may occur as a sporadic misspelling
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. o mesmo que batizar
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of baptizar
- baptizo first-person present singular
- baptizei first-person preterite singular
- baptizado participle past
- baptizares infinitive second-person singular
- baptizarmos first-person infinitive plural
- baptizardes infinitive plural second-person
- baptizarem infinitive plural third-person
- baptizando gerund
- baptizados masculine participle past
- baptizada feminine participle past
- baptizadas feminine participle past
- baptizas indicative present second-person
- baptiza indicative present singular
- baptizamos first-person indicative plural
- baptizais indicative plural present
- baptizam indicative plural present
- baptizava first-person imperfect indicative
- baptizavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is baptizar in Portuguese?
baptizar appears about once in every 7 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).